Footnote Physicist

          “Yes, always use the median.  In Russia the watches are not made very well, so when friends get           together they compute the times on their watches.  One says 5 minutes to 5, another says 5 o'clock,           the other says 11 o'clock.  Use the median!”           – Yakov Zeldovich (as relayed by J. Richard Gott) I                     “And as for my gambling, it's true I lost it all a few times.  But that's because I always took           the long shot and it never came in.  But I still have some time before I cross that river.  And if           you're at the table and you're rolling them bones, then there's no money playing it safe.  You have           to take all your chips and put them on double six and watch as every eye goes to you and then to           those red dice doing their wild dance and freezing time before finding the cruel green felt.                     I've been lucky.”           – Norm Macdonald II